Associate Professor, Environmental Science and Technology
University of Maryland College Park

Climate Science Specialties: Sea Level Rise, Coastal Systems, Policy

Brian Needelman is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Technology in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Maryland, College Park. He studies soil formation processes in tidal wetland soils including organic matter accumulation and decomposition, greenhouse gas fluxes, wetland elevation dynamics and sustainability in the face of sea-level rise and other climate change factors, and carbon crediting schemes.